Stokes: County shouldn't pay legally mandated election costs

4:00 PM,
Aug. 5, 2013

Stokes

Written by

Ruth Ingram
| ringram@clarionledger.com

The law says the state's boards of supervisors must pay for all county elections.

But that goes out the window, Hinds County District 5 Supervisor Kenneth Stokes says, if the election costs exceed what he believes the county can afford. He and two other board members voted to ask the Mississippi Attorney General's office to rule on whether Hinds County has to pay, with Hinds County Election Commission members warning him that ballots by law must be printed out by Friday.

Stokes' train of thought prompted an immediate threat of a lawsuit by Hinds County Republican Executive Committee chair ...